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Kansas City Royals @ New York Mets

2026-07-09 · Day game · Citi Field · Att: 33868 · 83°F, Cloudy · Wind 11 mph, In From CF · 2:24

New York Mets defeated Kansas City Royals 7–3. Kansas City Royals opened the scoring in the 1st — Lane Thomas homers (7) on a fly ball to left field. New York Mets took the lead in the 5th — Bo Bichette out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Lane Thomas. Brett Baty scores. The game's biggest swing came in the 5th: Carson Benge singles on a fly ball to center fielder Lane Thomas. A.J. Ewing scores. Juan Soto scores. Carson Benge to 3rd. Throwing error by center fielder Lane Thomas — worth 18% in win probability.

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Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KCA	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	7	1
NYN	0	1	0	0	5	0	1	0	0	7	10	1

Kansas City Royals — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Lane Thomas CF	4	1	1	1	0	1
Bobby Witt SS	4	1	1	1	0	0
Salvador Perez 1B	4	0	0	0	0	0
Josh Rojas PH	1	0	0	0	0	1
Starling Marte DH	3	0	1	0	0	1
Nick Loftin 3B	4	1	2	0	0	1
Jac Caglianone RF	4	0	1	1	0	2
Isaac Collins LF	2	0	0	0	1	0
Tyler Tolbert 2B	3	0	1	0	0	0
Carter Jensen C	1	0	0	0	0	1
Luke Maile C	2	0	0	0	0	2

New York Mets — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
A.J. Ewing CF	5	1	1	0	0	2
Juan Soto LF	2	2	1	1	2	1
Bo Bichette 3B	3	0	0	1	0	0
Carson Benge RF	3	2	2	1	1	0
Francisco Alvarez DH	4	0	1	1	0	2
Jared Young 1B	4	0	2	1	0	0
Tyrone Taylor CF	3	1	2	1	0	0
Mark Vientos 3B	0	0	0	0	0	0
Francisco Lindor SS	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brett Baty 2B	4	1	1	0	0	1
Luis Torrens C	3	0	0	0	1	1